Social Bookmarking Overview This includes websites such as "delicious" and many others (delicious is the most well-known) that organize and allow you to share your bookmarks that you have in your browser. This tool is a powerful resource that is searchable, sharable, and accessible from any computer. Features:
Easy to understand categories, or "tags" that allow you to swiftly keep track of useful websites for different subjects.
Searchable, so that you can use key words to quickly recall information you are looking for.
Accessible from any computer, so you can examine things from both school and home.
Sharable to assist with collaboration.
Strengths:
Great for collaboration on a research-like project. Students can share bookmarks and coordinate their findings quickly and easily.
Teachers can give important websites to students quickly and effectively through this process. (such as MLA citation websites, and the like).
Great for faculty collaboration (the entire English department shares their favorite literary websites!) or you can subscribe to friends, other professionals, or peers' network and receive updates when they update their bookmarks and that can keep you up-to-date on their most recent findings.
Weaknesses:
Beyond easily sharing information, this appears to have little value in the classroom. It might only be useful for assisting with research or sharing of websites that the class will use during the year.
Very little limitations on what is shared; one website that was found actually promotes the sharing of pornography-like websites.
Before using...
Decide carefully on what you're sharing, or how your students plan to use it.
You need to accumulate your resources.
Best Practices:
#1: Use this resource to share information and useful websites with your students and parents.
#2: Share and collaborate with other faculty members. Subscribe to professional resources or other professionals' delicious accounts from across the country so that you can be more current on the most interesting, useful, and relevant websites.
Bibliography
MAT Students, (Fall 2008). Google Docs. Retrieved February 9, 2009, from MAT Teaching Writing Web site: http://matteachingwriting.wikispaces.com/MAT Students, (Fall 2008). Google Docs. Retrieved February 9, 2009, from MAT Teaching Writing Web site: http://matteachingwriting.wikispaces.com/ This is an excellent resource from Megan Guise's Teaching Writing course in the fall. The class did great work to think about the use of some of these technology in the classroom. I think this website is useful for our future resources in several ideas on teaching, including wikispaces, blogging, social bookmarking, and other technologies.
Social Bookmarking
Overview
This includes websites such as "delicious" and many others (delicious is the most well-known) that organize and allow you to share your bookmarks that you have in your browser. This tool is a powerful resource that is searchable, sharable, and accessible from any computer.
Features:
- Easy to understand categories, or "tags" that allow you to swiftly keep track of useful websites for different subjects.
- Searchable, so that you can use key words to quickly recall information you are looking for.
- Accessible from any computer, so you can examine things from both school and home.
- Sharable to assist with collaboration.
Strengths:Weaknesses:
- Beyond easily sharing information, this appears to have little value in the classroom. It might only be useful for assisting with research or sharing of websites that the class will use during the year.
- Very little limitations on what is shared; one website that was found actually promotes the sharing of pornography-like websites.
Before using...- Decide carefully on what you're sharing, or how your students plan to use it.
- You need to accumulate your resources.
Best Practices:Bibliography